CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Culture Wars
2. Plotinus Against His Gnostic Friends
3. Other Ways of Writing
4. The Descent
5. The Ascent
6. The Crown
7. Between Judaism, Christianity, and Neoplatonism
Appendix: Reading Porphyry on the Gnostic Heretics and Their Apocalypses
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
